Student Friendly Presentation Resources

Drawing Tools

• Google Drawing in Google Docs
• Aviary Online Image Editor and Markup tools

Photography

• Flickr Advanced Search for Creative Commons licenses)
• Flickr Commons (from Library of Congress and others)
• Google Images Advanced Search, labeled for reuse
• Creative Commons Image Search
• Wikipedia (All images used on Wikipedia are in the public domain)
• iStockPhoto (Low cost stock images and video)

Animation

• Gapminder World (downloadable)

Screen capture

• Jing (screencasts)
• Camtasia (screencasts)
• 12 Screencasting Tools
• Aviary Talon (screen capture browser plugin)
• Taking Screen Shots on the Mac
• How to Take Screen Shots on Windows

Presentations (ideas, humor, inspiration)

• Hans Rosling Making Data Beautiful and other TED Talks.
• John Medina Speaking at Google
• Garr Reynolds Speaking at Google
• Chicken, Chicken, Chicken

Books, Blogs, and Articles

• A Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning, Richard Mayer Mayer’s 5 principles of multimedia presentations
• Visualization and Instructional Design, by John Swelller (pdf)
• Crash Course in Learning Theory, Kathy Sierra
• The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures, Dan Roam
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Edward Tufte
• Beautiful Evidence Edward Tufte (chapter on PowerPoint)
• slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations, Nancy Duarte
• Duarte Design Blog: Duarte Design is based in Mountain View and was hired to work with several of the presenters who spoke at TED in 2009
• Brain Rules, John Medina
• Brain Rules Website
• Presentation Zen, Garr Reynolds' Blog
• Brain Rules for Presenters, Garr Reynolds
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness A good book to read and think about what nudges you are designing into your class presentations and materials and what effects they could be having.
• Really Bad PowerPoint, Seth Godin
• Beyond Bullet Points, Cliff Atkinson
• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School, John Medina
• Flowing Data, Nathan Yau (Data Visualization Blog)
• C.R.A.P. Examples

Online Tutorials

• Lynda.com Tutorials for Powerpoint, Keynote…

Seminars & Training

• Duarte Design Training
• Edwarde Tufte Seminar

Shared by Readers

• Presentation & Speaking Skills for Students, Speaking tips and links to various design resources (Maryville University, recommended by Mia)